The Eden Project in Cornwall has been granted planning permission for a £6 million, 115-bedroom hotel on its site at Bodelva near St Austell. The hotel will support Eden's activities, its educational aspirations including its future conference events, its educational programme as well as its annual season of concerts.

The hotel has been designed to blend into the countryside and will have high standards of accessibility, energy-efficiency and sustainability.  It will be a timber-clad structure, similar in style to Eden's Foundation Building which sits outside of the main visitor area. The hotel will not include any catering provision. Instead guests will access the existing facilities in the main Eden site.

The new hotel is expected to be completed in mid-2016.

Details: www.edenproject.com